The Impossible Planet - "Toshiba's new household robot, the ApriAttenda, may have a humiliatingly cute cartoon face, but its robot brain plots murder." The Zap Gun - "Israel used a slew of new weapons in new ways, during its assault on Hamas earlier this year..." A Scanner Darkly - "No one denies th...

A Maze of Death - "Where have you seen Jesus? Or where do you suppose he'll be sighted next?" Sales Pitch - "It lifts you physically and emotionally and makes you feel good knowing you did something good for someone and yourself, and it's one of the most nutritious grains." Galactic Pot-Healer - "Th...

Dr. Bloodmoney - "We have scientists to tell us that we should learn to love - and fear - the Finality, the coming End of All Things, that is darn nigh inevitable, though hopefully removed by a few quadrillion years. But rest assured, science can speed up things considerably in this direction, and h...

Another Monday, another Dark-Haired Girl Day. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "Don't count them out until they're completely deleted." A Scanner Darkly - "Not only a hit with the students, who enjoy signing themselves in, the system is saving a member of staff about an hour and a half each d...

Fellow Dick-Heads may be interested to learn that the influence of Blade Runner continues with the Watchmen film. There's plenty of rain, plenty of darkness and plenty of scenes reminiscent of the Bradbury Building - so far, so what? There's a few dark-haired girls, too. However, it is the a...

A sickly selection box of recent queries which optimistically washed up somewhere in UK Education, at the desk / telephone / email inbox of Palmer Eldritch... "All my printing is appearing on one side of paper! How's that problem arisen again?" ~~~ "Hi? Is John there? I’m just ringing back – Iâ€...

How To Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later - "When you look back at older versions of dictionaries, there were lots of examples of flowers for instance...That was because many children lived in semi-rural environments and saw the seasons. Nowadays, the environment has changed." T...

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "You and I can just call it "brain hacking," because that's what it is." The Mold of Yancy - "Even in an office full of political memorabilia, collected by Greenberg during a life on the campaign trail, it is striking in its scale, towering over the election p...

'It is a sign that, like Him, we must thinknot of the things of the body, but of the face and head!' Shell Game - "...researchers showed how small robots could comb the lunar soil for rocks, gathering them to pave a durable grit-free landing pad..." The Electric Ant - "So it's only logical that the ...

It is early morning, somewhere in UK Education. Palmer Eldritch answers the telephone... Eldritch - Hello, IT Helpdesk? Librarian - Hi. I can’t log on. I just get ‘domain not available’. Eldritch - OK, are you on a laptop or a desktop computer? Librarian - A desk one. Eldritch - Is there a gre...